Heavily backed by the UK's government as a part of its policy of investing only in those companies that least need it, Rolls Royce's aeroplane intended to break the electrical speed record takes to the skies on the eighty-first anniversary of the Battle of Britain.
Which is ironic, seeing how this American-designed aeroplane uses a motor ~ albeit developed in Oxford ~ belonging to Mercedes-Benz.
Whose engines were pitted against ones designed by Rolls-Royce during the Battle of Britain.
So with UK taxpayers funding German companies beside buying their cars, who won?
